Quotes with president-elect

Quotes 161 till 180 of 242.

  • Albert Ellis The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Billy Herman The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
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  • John F. Kennedy The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, ''You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.'' I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The devil has his elect.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bob Graham The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Will Rogers The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bill Dedman The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Will Rogers The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bradley A. Blakeman The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.
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  • Brad Sherman The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Campbell Brown The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Graham The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The President is the people's lobbyist.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Harry S. Truman The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Arthur Hailey The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Ari Fleischer The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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